come up with

present singular third person comes up with · participle present coming up with · past came up with

1. idiomatictransitiveTo manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.

   How can you come up with such brilliant ideas?

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   Unless Geoff can come up with the money for that train ticket, he'll be stuck in Des Moines for the weekend.

   And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...

   2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3

   Eric Andre: Were you born black or did you come up with a stage name and get a ton of surgery? Blac Chyna: I came up with it.

   2023, The Eric Andre Show, season 6, episode 3

   In 2001, she was legally declared dead, but police and private investigators have continued to come up with compelling leads.

   2026 August 10, Nicholas Muhoro, “Jodi Huisentruit, 27, Vanished From Her Apartment Parking Lot in 1995. Police Found Signs of a Struggle”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2026

2. idiomatictransitiveTo reach or overtake.

   Synonyms: catch up with

3. idiomatictransitiveUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up, with.

   He came up with a bag of rice, having it carried it up from downstairs.